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A static collage of five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color schemes and backgrounds.

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A static collage of five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color schemes and backgrounds.

A static collage of five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color schemes and backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • five

Dense Caption

Five separate portrait images arranged in a grid: top-left is black-and-white, showing a smiling person; top-middle has light blue background with red-and-white scarf; top-right features brown hair against orange backdrop; bottom-left shows dark-haired figure with sunglasses near red vehicle; bottom-center displays two people kissing. All portraits are pixelated and cropped to faces or upper bodies.

Description

  • A static collage of five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color schemes and backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200904190529561245979606

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated collage people smiling kissing
  • black-and-white portrait red scarf blue background
  • brown hair sunglasses vehicle two people

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: five panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Wordwall

  • black-and-white portrait
  • light blue background
  • red-and-white scarf
  • brown hair
  • sunglasses
  • red vehicle
  • two people kissing
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904190529561245979606
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
8.6 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6dc1606c2c2de358b635b0339ec99f9926133cb49e19ae74e9d92e718e536c81.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
6dc1606c2c2de358
SHA-256
6dc1606c2c2de358b635b0339ec99f9926133cb49e19ae74e9d92e718e536c81
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 23, 2026 at 20:26 UTC
Run
1336
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.097803

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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A static collage of five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color schemes and backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,232 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,170, response 597

Review tags

  • kissing (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • scarf (object, 0.80)
  • vehicle (object, 0.80)
  • collage (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • kissing

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light blue
  • red
  • orange
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • five

Dense Caption

Five separate portrait images arranged in a grid: top-left is black-and-white, showing a smiling person; top-middle has light blue background with red-and-white scarf; top-right features brown hair against orange backdrop; bottom-left shows dark-haired figure with sunglasses near red vehicle; bottom-center displays two people kissing. All portraits are pixelated and cropped to faces or upper bodies.

Description

  • A static collage of five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color schemes and backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200904190529561245979606

Mood

  • happy
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated collage people smiling kissing
  • black-and-white portrait red scarf blue background
  • brown hair sunglasses vehicle two people

Objects

  • scarf
  • vehicle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: five panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • collage

Subjects

  • people

Wordwall

  • black-and-white portrait
  • light blue background
  • red-and-white scarf
  • brown hair
  • sunglasses
  • red vehicle
  • two people kissing
  • pixelated
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200904190529561245979606
Archive entry
200904190529561245979606.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904190529561245979606.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904190529561245979606.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016